THE SHOALS-On Wednesday, September 4, at 9:30 am at McFarland Park in Florence, five local school districts received a wonderful gift from the Greenway Automotive dealerships: Seven automobiles were given to the schools for immediate use in their Driver Education classes. Two vehicles were to the Colbert County School System as well as two vehicles […]
CHEROKEE-Peoples Piggly Wiggly in the town of Cherokee received $50,000 to renovate and upgrade equipment to reopen their grocery store through the first grants from the Alabama Healthy Food Financing Act . The need for the store is in response to the closing of the town’s only grocery store in 2017, requiring residents to travel about […]
SHEFFIELD-Probably the most famous tradition in the United States is the dropping of the New Year ball in Times Square, New York City, at 11:59 P.M. Thousands gather to watch the ball make its one-minute descent, arriving exactly at midnight. The tradition first began in 1907. The original ball was made of iron and wood and weighed […]
